It Really Is 'All About Me'

In the full throes of her awkward, impertinent adolescence,
  my daughter boldly wore a t-shirt, loudly proclaiming,
  'It's all about me!'

Us older and more mature adults looked on smuggly.
  'It is all about her,' we smiled in our befuddled wisdom.
  And, we tiptoed around her audacious, immature call-to-self.

25-years later, I realize that, my child, 
  in the freshness of her life on this planet,
  innately understood a fundamental fact of life.

It really is all about her...and me...and you...
  We are born to this world to explore our lives,
  to learn, to witness, to feel, to grow, to offer, to live.

We can't change circumstances into which we were born.
  Things happen in life that we didn't create, but deeply feel.
  And, despite our valient efforts, we really can't change another.

We can, however, decide how we will live,
  in the circumstances into which we were born,
  through the things that happen during our lives.

Therein lie the gifts, the opportunities, the blessings
  endowed to us, created and offered for our ascendance.
  And always, we get to decide how we will answer the call.

The ascendance happens one person at a time,
  concerns one soul gifted with life upon this earth,
  is designed to craft the opportunities for her growth.

The changes, the real changes, the important changes,
  are those made inside ourselves, those that permeate us,
  and, through our living, spill from us to the life around us.

This life-practice of introspection, cleansing and growth
  creates abundance in our hearts that then overflows into
  all that we touch, everything we do, each person we touch.

This is such a hard lesson to learn, though.
  It's so much easier to force change on another
  than to face and make the change required of self.

So easy is it to fall into the trap of other-focus,
  to smile smuggly at those who are less evolved,
  to strive toward their awakenings, even as we sleep.

Liberate from your closet your old 'It's about me' t-shirt.
  Adorn yourself with it and boldly face your day, your self.
  Search within to find your wonderous, enigmatic embodied-soul.

Settle into your own journey to ascendance.
  Seek, cleanse, clear, grow, learn, witness, be.
  And remember,

It really is all about you.